VORTRAG: Der Holocaust und Nordafrika

In the organizer's words:

With: Aomar Boum (Professor of Anthropology and Sephardic History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA)

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In 2018, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum published a depressingly comprehensive "Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos" in the countries and colonies controlled by Nazi Germany's allies. In it, the more than 100 little-known camps of the fascist Axis powers in North Africa were described in detail for the first time. One of the authors was the historian Aomar Boom, who comes from Morocco and teaches in the USA. He is also co-editor of the essay collection The Holocaust and North Africa and a history in documents about the (war) years 1934 - 1950 in North Africa.

In 2022, he also published the graphic novel Undesirables - A Holocaust Journey to North Africa with the Algerian artist Nadjib Berber.

In his lecture, Aomar Boum describes - based on Jewish-Muslim relations in the 1930s - the consequences of Vichy rule for the Jews of North Africa and for refugees from Europe, the function of the labor camps in the region and the current state of research on the subject.

In cooperation with: Volkshochschule Köln; Afrika Film Festival Köln / FilmInitiativ Köln e.V.; Friedensbildungswerk Köln; Verein EL-DE-Haus e.V.; GERMANIA JUDAICA - Kölner Bibliothek zur Geschichte des Deutschen Judentums e. V.; Eine Welt Netz NRW